User Reviews

Red Rooster Harlem

Posted by jycinnyc on 02/20/2011

Hit-or-miss

Restaurant has a casual vibe with a friendly, professional staff. The bar was hopping. We were seated at communal tables near the open kitchen, which is a little noisy because you hear all the orders being yelled out. The food was all over the place. The sublime: oxtail. The really good: crabcake, pulled pork snack, meatballs. The avoid at all costs: cauliflower, oysters. The people next to us got yard bird, the fish with lentils, collard greens, and yams, and only liked the fish. I think the menu should be edited. The soul-Swedish thing doesn't really work.

Red Rooster Harlem

Posted by Big Daddy on 02/20/2011

Good service - mediocre food

I expected to be treated as a Rooster but the only dirty bird at my table was on the plate! Brunch was fine - food was nothing special. Not worth a trip to Harlem. Basically high end diner food.

Red Rooster Harlem

Posted by bigbangtheory on 02/13/2011

disappointed.......but might give it another chance later when they work out some kinks!

so we went there for a pre-valentine's day dinner. now i admit that sunday is not the best day of the week to go out for a nice dinner but geeeeeez.......this was really disappointing. we had the corn bread side, crab cakes, salmon entree, steak entree with fries, and shared a plate of mac and greens. the only thing that i really liked at all was the cornbread. it was very nice. when you throw down $140 for dinner for two you expect a bit more. the service was ok......not as attentive as i would expect a great restaurant do have. and one pet peeve. the tables are unusually wide for an intimate dinner for two....it's hard to carry on a conversation across such a broad table for two in light of the constant din in the restaurant. anyway, marcus came by the tables...that was nice...but he didn't even bother to ask how everything was. i hope he learns from these comments that people living in harlem still expect excellent service, good value, and solidly made flavorful food. i didn't find much of any of these things unfortunately.

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Posted by anonymous on 02/10/2011

Finally, great service in Harlem, but mediocre food

We waited three weeks for a dinner reservation only to realize it was not worth it. The food was neither imaginative nor well prepared. We ordered crab cakes as a first course and there was nothing remarkable about them. As an entree we had one order of the ox tails, which were overly sweet, and the fried "yard-bird" (chicken). The chicken was a complete let-down: flavorless and not crispy. Our bill came to over $100 for a dinner that most likely would not have been more than $60 anywhere else in a 20 block radius. The one saving grace was that our server was polite, efficient, and extremely professional.

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Posted by J.D. Beaner on 02/08/2011

His goose is cooked

From all the hype, I was expecting a superlative dinner, sorely disapointed. Nothing more enfuriating than high price cafeteria fare. Don't waste your time, and moolah!!

Red Rooster Harlem

Posted by anonymous on 02/08/2011

what a let down

i cant believe what a let down red rooster harlem is. i ate there with a friend this week and we were so disgusted at the food we wanted to just walk out. with the reputation of chef samuelsson,you would not expect such bland flavorless food. it looked amazing and smelled even better but good god it was gross !

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Posted by Tam on 02/05/2011

What a disappointment!

I have been wanting to try Red Rooster for quite some time. My friends and I decided to do our monthly dinner there this past Tuesday. I ordered the shrimp and dirty rice as a starter and the mac and cheese as the entree. The food was not good at all. I'm a real foodie and I pride myself in knowing good tasting food. I was so not impressed and actually disappointed. I never use salt and I had to add salt to the mac and cheese to give it some flavor. I can't believe all the hype around Red Rooster. My friend got the fried chicken and it was so tasteless. They claim to marinate the chicken it for three days! Ha! I was really hoping this restaurant would be the start to a more diversified restaurant scene in Harlem.